{"id":129582,"date":"2020-06-25T03:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=129582"},"modified":"2020-06-25T03:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:14:29","slug":"former-cm-mukut-mithi-retires-from-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/former-cm-mukut-mithi-retires-from-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CM Mukut Mithi retires from politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Former-CM-Mukut-Mithi-retires-from-politics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-129590 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Former-CM-Mukut-Mithi-retires-from-politics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Former-CM-Mukut-Mithi-retires-from-politics.jpg 472w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Former-CM-Mukut-Mithi-retires-from-politics-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Former-CM-Mukut-Mithi-retires-from-politics-324x400.jpg 324w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Former-CM-Mukut-Mithi-retires-from-politics-342x420.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>ITANAGAR, Jun 24:<\/strong> Former Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha member Mukut Mithi has announced retirement from politics.<br \/>\nMithi&#8217;s term as Rajya Sabha member ended on Tuesday.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have retired from politics but not from public service. And I would like to say that political ideologies apart, I will be with administration to contribute my bit for the happiness and prosperity of Arunachal Pradesh&#8221;, he said.<br \/>\nExtending gratitude to the people of Arunachal Pradesh for &#8220;reposing their faith&#8221; in him, Mithi said, &#8220;I have no idea to what extent I have fulfilled my responsibility and obligation towards the posts I occupied but I am sure I tried with the best of my ability and tried honesty&#8221;<br \/>\nSaying that he has tried his best to serve the interests of Arunachalees, advocated the cause of Arunachal at every meaningful forum and showcased the state&#8217;s rich culture within the country and outside during his political career, the former chief minister, while<br \/>\nbidding good bye to politics, added: &#8220;I would like to place on record my heartfelt gratitude to my beloved people of Arunachal Pradesh for their support, encouragement and affection.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I feel somewhat nostalgic and derive satisfaction of having earned the love and affection of the people of Arunachal Pradesh and public and political leaders cutting across the party lines&#8221;, Mithi said.<br \/>\n&#8220;While leaders are expected to make a positive impact in people&#8217;s lives, they also undergo difficult patch in political life. I also had to fight my own battles and fought it honorably. I thank with the bottom of my heart all those, which include public and political leaders, government employees, common Arunachalees, journalists and media for just being there when I was going through the grind&#8221;, Mithi added.<br \/>\nMithi was the chief minister of Arunachal from 1999-2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 24: Former Chief Minister and Rajya Sabha member Mukut Mithi has announced retirement from politics. Mithi&#8217;s term as Rajya Sabha member ended on Tuesday. &#8220;I have retired from politics but not from public service. And I would like to say that political ideologies apart, I will be with administration to contribute my bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}